Philips MCD908 manual General Information, Features

Features

Your DVD Micro Theatre with 2.0 channel full digital amplifier creates the same dynamic sound qualities that you find in full-fledged cinemas and incorporates some of the best features in home theater technology.

Other features include:

Built-in Dolby Digital decoder, supporting DSC sound setting.

Additional Component Connections

Lets you connect other audio and audio/visual components to the DVD micro theatre.

Night mode

Lets you compress the dynamic range, reducing the difference in loudness between different sounds in Dolby Digital mode.

Parental Control (Rating Level)

Lets you set a ratings level so that your children cannot watch a DVD that has a rating higher than you set.

Sleep/Wake-up Timer

Enables the system to switch on/off automatically at a preset time.

Progressive Scan

Provides high quality flicker-free images for film based sources.When a picture refreshes, its vertical resolution can double to 525 lines.

Note:

–To fully enjoy the progressive scan feature, you need a progressive scan TV.

Hi-Fi Tube Sound from DVD Micro Theatre

Why do I need it?

You deserve an immersive sound experience like an audiophile.

The built-in vacuum tube preamplifier enables you to experience the highest quality sound normally you can only find in premium Hi-Fi audio equipment.

Music is dynamic and is played to be heard by human ears.The analogue nature of tube gives a more pleasing sound to the nonlinear human ear-brain hearing system.Tube sound has less distortion than solid-state sound and audiophiles always prefer tubes for their clean, warm and far more detailed and life-like sound.

What is it?

Vacuum tube is not something new, but always a premium.

Before the introduction of transistors, most electronic amplifier used vacuum tubes. By 60s', solid-state amplification became more common, but tube amplifier has retained a loyal following among audiophiles with modern units from companies commanding very high price.

How does it work?

Amplifiers are available based on solid-state (semiconductor) technology or vacuum-tube (valve) technology. Many audiophile systems separate the functions of the preamplifier-which selects audio signals and has a volume control- and the power amplifier, which takes a line-level audio signal and drives the loudspeakers. Audiophiles find the tube preamplifier product a more faithful and detailed reproduction in comparison to the solid-state preamplifier.

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